Opinion

Qatar’s Tilt towards China helped Seal 27-year LNG deal

02 Dec 2022 15:14 PM IST

While the world is talking about Qatar FIFA World Cup as the world cup of “firsts”, the tiny island state of Qatar, marred by criticism and tangled in international politics, is the first Islamic state to host a “winter” FIFA world cup. It’s the second Asian country is hosting a

India-US relations irritate China

01 Dec 2022 00:03 AM IST

In a 196-page report titled, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2022”, which the Pentagon presented to the US Congress, India finds several mentions in the context of the threat that China’s aggressive military policies pose to India’s territorial integrity. At one place the report mentions,

Social discrimination: Time to discuss the gender disability of the Third Gender

01 Dec 2022 00:03 AM IST

In 2014, the Supreme Court of India in National Legal Services Authority vs Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438, declared that the hijra community will be considered to be a third gender for the first time after the Bhoorah case. This judgment has given gender identification to the hijra

What India can expect from new Pakistan army chief

01 Dec 2022 00:03 AM IST

Marriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistan’s Information Minister, announced the appointment of Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir Shah as the new Chief of the Pakistani Army on Twitter. He will take charge over the incumbent, General Qamar Bajwa, after a stalemate over the new selection. His appointment comes at a time when Imran

Kejriwal’s dilemma: Delhi MCD or Gujarat?

30 Nov 2022 00:31 AM IST

Is it more important for Arvind Kejriwal to win the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections or to focus on making a sizable debut in the Gujarat Assembly polls? Delhi is Kejriwal’s karam-bhoomi and what is giving him his political raison d’ etre. But Kejriwal is dreaming beyond the borders of

‘Skill India’ mission needs sharper planning, rigorous implementation to be more effective

30 Nov 2022 00:29 AM IST

Almost a decade back, the term “demographic dividend” was coined and it was predicted that skilling youth was the only answer to one of our major problems that is unemployment. In the last decade, we got exposed to many new things which we had not anticipated like prevalence and power

Public funding needed to boost higher education

30 Nov 2022 00:25 AM IST

There have been hints that the forthcoming budget may focus on the education and health sectors. It is hoped that it would accord high priority to higher education too. Universities and higher educational institutions have been reeling under financial crunch and hoping against hope that the assurance of the new

Xi Jinping must resign

29 Nov 2022 14:33 PM IST

Some are calling it the “white paper revolution”, others the “blank paper protests” or the “A4 revolution” where civilians hold up a piece of blank paper of A4 size, to register their protest against their authoritarian government. Characterised as “passive aggression”, the protests are spreading—from campus to campus, from city

Pak at a crossroads with new Army chief in place

29 Nov 2022 14:27 PM IST

The Pakistan government has recommended to the President to appoint Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir as Chief of Army Staff and Lt. Gen. Shamshad Mirza as Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff Committee (CJCSC). Gen Munir was commissioned in the frontier Force Regiment and deemed to be a close aide

NEW PAKISTAN ARMY CHIEF GEN MUNIR WILL BE A ‘HARDLINE’, INDIA NEEDS TO BE CAUTIOUS

28 Nov 2022 00:49 AM IST

With General Asim Munir set to take charge as Pakistan’s new army chief on 29 November, India needs to be more cautious now as the former ISI head would be more hardline. The fact that New Delhi cannot afford to ignore is that Munir was heading Pakistan’s intelligence agency –ISI

‘Aukat’ remarks for Modi: Why is Gujarat not enthusiastic about it?

28 Nov 2022 00:47 AM IST

On 12 November, a video went viral on social media wherein Congress senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Madhusudan Mistry was seen making a derogatory remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ‘Aap mujse puchhate hai to main to kahunga ki ye Narendra Modi ki aukat batayenge.’ When a journalist in

PM’s employment catalyst: Rozgar Mela and beyond

28 Nov 2022 00:45 AM IST

Under the Rozgar Mela scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed about 71,000 appointment letters to newly-inducted recruits on 22 November 2022, via video conferencing. The Rozgar Mela is a step towards fulfillment of the commitment of the PM to accord highest priority to employment generation. The Rozgar Mela is expected